Assumption of Mary (Aufkirchen)

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Church of the Assumption
Pointed arch portal

The Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary in Aufkirchen , a district of Berg am Starnberger See in the Upper Bavarian district of Starnberg , is a late Gothic building from around 1500, which was built on the site of smaller predecessor churches. The church, located high above the eastern shore of Lake Starnberg , is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

history

The place is first mentioned in a document towards the end of the 10th century as "Ufkiricha". The name means church on a hill and is evidence that a church already existed at that time. The first pastor named by name is recorded for the year 1307. In the 14th century had Parish achieved a considerable extent, the numerous churches around which the Konradihaus niches matrikel , the goods classification created 1315/16 of the Diocese of Freising are listed as branch were subordinated. In the 15th century the Marien pilgrimage to the church of Aufhausen began and the place became one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in the Bavarian Oberland . In the years 1499/1500 the old church, which had become too small, was replaced by a new building, which was consecrated in 1500. After a fire in 1625, the interior was redesigned in the early Baroque style .

Elector Max Emanuel , whose father, Ferdinand Maria , had the patronage right for the parish transferred from the Freising Bishop, handed it over to the Augustinian Hermits of Munich in 1688 , to whom it was subject until the order was dissolved in the course of the sacularization . The Augustinian hermits promoted the pilgrimage to Aufkirchen.

In the years 1795/96, the tower and the west yoke had to be rebuilt after their collapse by the Munich city mason Matthias Widmann. Extensive renovations took place in the 1960s and 1980s.

architecture

inner space

Exterior construction

In front of the west facade is the three-story tower, the octagonal upper floor of which is crowned by a bell-shaped dome with a high point and a gold-plated sphere. A late Gothic pointed arch portal is integrated in the western vestibule, the carved door leaves date from the 17th century. On the north side of the choir , the sacristy was added in 1642 , over which an oratory was built in 1657. The brotherhood chapel Maria Trost was added to the south side of the nave in 1705/06 .

inner space

The single-nave nave extends over four bays and opens into a retracted choir with a five-eighth end in the east . The choir and nave are covered with late Gothic net rib vaults, the ribs of which are covered with white, early baroque stucco . The walls are structured by strong pilasters with chamfered corners and three-quarter columns with Ionic capitals . The double gallery in the west was built in the middle of the 17th century. Large pointed arch windows illuminate the interior.

Furnishing

Madonna enthroned
  • The miraculous image of the enthroned Madonna with baby Jesus is a carved figure from the late 15th century. It originally stood in the center of the former high altar .
  • The life-size wooden figures of Christ, Mary and the apostles on the nave walls were created in 1626 by Christof Angermair (after 1580–1633) and his workshop.
  • The chalice-shaped baptismal font with the sculptural group of the baptism of Jesus on the modern lid from 1645 comes from the Munich court stone mason Wilhelm Pader.
  • The grille under the gallery, the former choir grille, is a work from 1664.
  • The baroque pulpit from around 1670 comes from Degerndorf and replaces the pulpit that was removed when the church was regotified.
  • The church chair cheeks date from around 1750.
  • In the choir hangs a larger-than-life, wood-carved crucifixion group with Mary and John from the middle of the 18th century, which probably comes from a Munich workshop.
  • Numerous votive candles and tablets from the 18th and 19th centuries are kept in the church. The oldest votive picture is from the 16th century.

  • Votive picture

  • Votive picture

  • Votive picture

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , pp. 68–69.

Web links

Commons : Mariä Himmelfahrt (Aufkirchen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Assumption of Mary in Aufkirchen am Starnberger See parish of Assumption of Mary in Aufkirchen
  2. ↑ Monument list for mountain (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-88-113-33

Coordinates: 47 ° 57 '22.3 "  N , 11 ° 21' 47.4"  E